Princess, but I thought you were pissed at me.” He says when I smile back at him and grab his hand to take him to the couch.
“Are you kidding me?” I ask him. I can’t ever remember feeling more alive than I am in this moment. It almost makes me dizzy. “You took that guy down faster than a trained navy seal, without even really hurting him. Not only that but you didn’t spend the usual five minutes talking about it first. It was the sexiest thing I’ve ever seen. ” I push my fingers into his hair and smile seductively. When did I learn to be seductive? I ignore my shock at my actions and just roll with it. “I couldn’t get you out of that place fast enough. It took a lot of control not to jump you right in the bar, but I thought you might like some privacy for our first kiss.” Connor just stares at me with his mouth open when I finish and I wink at him.
“Why you little…You just…” Connor can’t seem to finish a sentence. Just when I think I broke him, he throws his head back and laughs harder than I’ve ever heard him. He pushes me back into the couch and leans over me mid laugh, sapphire eyes bright with laughter and hair disheveled from our kiss. He is by far the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen. I tell him so and he stares down at me and shakes his head.
“Nina Ryan, you are complicated, unique, adorable and real. I’ve never had more fun with another woman. You also happen to be sexy as hell and the most naturally, devastatingly beautiful woman I’ve ever met.” He leans further down and presses his face to my hair and inhales. “I’m not going to survive you.” Oh wow .
I kiss his neck and try to process what he says. The most amazing man I’ve ever known thinks I’m the most amazing women he’s ever known. Connor doesn’t let me think on that too long. He pulls back up from my hair to capture my lips again. This kiss is light and teasing. He nips at my lips and then leaves them to feather kisses on each part of my face. My nose, my eyes, my cheeks my chin, my forehead, nothing is left untouched. It feels like he’s learning my face, by trying to memorize what each part of me feels like. When he reaches a sensitive spot on my neck, I release a groan and move my hand from his nape to grip his hair. He laughs and lingers there.
“So, does this mean you’re ready for more than friendship?” His breath cools the spot on my neck that he just warmed with his lips, giving me goose bumps.
“Yea you could say that.” I breathe on a shiver.
Connor sits up and looks me straight in the eye. “I don’t want there to be any confusion here Nina. You’re my girlfriend now. We’re in an exclusive relationship. Your mine and I’m yours. No turning back.”
I return his look and cup his face, “I don’t know if I’ve ever had a choice in this Connor, I’ve been yours from the beginning. Maybe I hit my head too hard. My brain hasn’t worked right since.” I smile, but Connor’s face is still serious.
“You always have a choice Nina.”
I know what he wants to hear so I say, “I choose you Connor.”
He closes his eyes and when they open, the blue of them shines through me. “I promise you won’t regret it.”
Now that we have declared our relationship, I realize I need to have “the talk” and it’s like being doused with cold water. I get up from underneath him and walk into the kitchen pulling Connor with me by the hand. I’m going to need some cider for this. I know this is the 21st century, but I have some pretty hard rules regarding sex. I’m not really a “no sex till marriage” kind of girl, but having sex with someone I’m not in love with has never appealed to me. More importantly, having sex with someone who doesn’t love me terrifies me. My one time mistake taught me that. How can you trust someone not to hurt you when you’re at your
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